Stories from the Field

July 2003

A Divine Appointment

A Christian worker told an American believer to wait for him in front of a refugee center where they were going to minister because “there is no way you can get into the center without a contact or one of us accompanying you.” When his friend didn’t arrive, the worker walked into the center anyway, hoping to find him. Not finding his friend anywhere, the worker decided he had made a mistake and started to leave. On the way out, however, he heard two men speaking in Turkish. The men invited him back to their room, where he met their roommates—all Iraqi Kurds. As they ate together, the American reflected on the fact that their two countries were avowed enemies, yet these men were showing him only hospitality. When the time came to leave, his new friend gave the American a traditional kiss on both cheeks and called him arkadasim—“my friend.”

From TC Online
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